Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Detecting nuclear – electromagnetic – or ultrasonic radiation
Patent
1992-11-03
1998-08-25
Hayes, Gail O.
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation
600442, G06F 0000
Patent
active
057978433
ABSTRACT:
Subtle changes in heart wall motion which may be symptomatic of coronary disease states are more easily discerned by acquiring a real time sequence of ultrasonic diagnostic images. An image acquired at a predetermined point in the cardiac cycle, such as the end diastole image, is chosen as a mask image, and the heart wall in the mask image is colored a first color. The heart wall in the remaining images in the sequence is colored a second, contrasting color. The contrasting images are then successively displayed in overlapping alignment with a static display of the mask images Abnormalities in heart wall motion are more easily discerned by the relative motion between the contrasting image sequence and the mask image.
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Feigenbaum Harvey
Fitch Geoffrey N.
Brinton Yorks, Jr. W.
Eastman Kodak Comapny
Hayes Gail O.
Thomas Joe
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